Some lovely shibori techniques for indigo dying.

ace plastic wrap or a plastic placemat under your fabric in case the glue seeps through. Squeeze white glue or blue gel glue to make lines and designs on your fabric. You can make simple designs like flowers or geometric shapes, or do a complete picture. Young kids will surely enjoy squeezing on random lines and shapes.

small scale silk screen printing Get an embroidery hoop, some silk, a credit card, fabric paint, contact paper and get printing. All you have to do is cut your design out of contact paper, adhere it to your little screen and get printing. The credit card acts as a squeegee.

Group Sunpainting Project (Ages 5-Adult)

sun dye

Sun Painting or Heliographic Art is a process whereby certain fabric paints are applied to fabric and while still wet, objects like stencils, leafs, feathers etc are placed onto the wet fabric. It is then placed in the sun. the outlines of the objects are transferred to the fabric.

Dye fabric with ice cube technique icedyeing5

Ice died fabric!

Ice Fabric Dyeing Feb 4th, 2011 by lyndah Did you say you don’t have snow and want to do some dyeing? Well, before I put up my dyeing stuff, I thought I’d try one more type of dyeing – ice dyeing. For those of us who don’t have snow or would like to try this in the summer, this is an alternative. Please read my getting started and my fabric dye precautions posts before attempting this or any fabric reactive dye project. Since Judi had suggested I set my fabric up out of the dye, I tried that this time. I set a metal rack on top of cat food cans which I put into my dyeing container. I then folded my material and placed it on top of the rack. Folded fabric on rack I topped the fabric with ice cubes. Ice cubes on top of fabric I then sprinkled dye powder over the snow. Be very careful with this powder. Refer to my fabric dye precautions post. Green, Raspberry and Yellow Dyes over ice cubes Follow procedures as other dyeing. Cover and move to a warm area. Wait 24 hours. This is what it looks like after 24 hours and before washing it out. After 24 hours Now to rinse, wash and dry. Follow the procedures HERE. And this is what I got from this ice dyeing. Click on picture for larger view. Finished Ice Dyed Fabric I am so pleased with this piece. It may be one of my favorite pieces. I’d love to see if you try this. Now I need to get the sewing machine going!